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has undertaken to carry out the work of eradicating this col- 

 ony. Mr. Giffard considered that tlie iwvn had not heen in- 

 fested for a greater time than six or seven months. 



XOVEMBER 6th, 1019. 



The 170th meeting" of tlie Society was held in the iisnal 

 place, Vice-President Crawford in the chair. Other memljers 

 present: Messrs. Bridwell, Bryan, Ehrhorn, Pemberton, Pot- 

 ter, Rosa, Swezey, and Timberlake. 



In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Bridwell was a])]»(>iiit(^(l 

 Secretary pro tern. 



Minntes of previous meeting were read and approved. 



A Committee was appointed to prepare an additional list 

 of common names for Hawaiian economic insects. Messrs. 

 Timberlake, Pemberton, and Bridwell. 



PAPEKS. 



Some new Hawaiian Coleoptera. 



HV Dli. K. C. L. PEBKIXS, PAIGXTOX, EjVGLAXD. 

 (Presented by Mr. Swezey.) 



This ]iaj»er dc^als with a small consignment of beetles be- 

 longing to the Longicorns of the tribe Plagithmysini, and to 

 the family Proterhinidae, recently sent to me for determination 

 and description by Messrs. O. II. Swezey and J. C. Bridwell. 

 The type specimens of the ncAV species in this lot will be de- 

 posited in the collections of the Hawaiian Entomological So- 

 ciety. In addition to these I have described a f<''w new species 

 of Proterliinus of my own collecting which I had occasion to 

 examine in the course of working out the othevs. The Types 

 of these are in my own collection. 



The specimens sent had been collected wuth great care and 

 in nearly every case the trees or plants on which they were 

 fonnd had been carefully noted. This is of great importance 



